Facebook shares how storytelling is key to their ability to scale

Facebook shares how storytelling is key to their ability to scale

Growing design teams have a tendency to concentrate on processes and data, and although those elements are vital to scale, they can sometimes lose sight of the why. Key to scaling is building an infrastructure that supports a company’s core mission.

In our final DesignBetter.co Podcast of Season 2, we chat with Facebook VP of Product Design Margaret Gould Stewart, at Facebook about how storytelling, open communication, and keeping the focus on the customer help Facebook’s design team scale.

Listen to Margaret’s story in our latest podcast episode.

Key points from Margaret:

Building relationships where people are comfortable being honest with you, then having the difficult conversations, are keys to finding your place as a leader in a growing organization.

It’s important for high-performing individuals to have hobbies they allow themselves to be “just okay” at.

The key to implementing scalable infrastructure is to put it in place before you start to really feel the pain of growth.
When in doubt, always go back to the core mission: Who are you doing this for and why?

Stephanie GonzalezStephanie is a copywriter for InVision. She hails from the humid land of Elvis (that’s Memphis, TN, for the uninitiated), where she lords it over her two dogs, three cats, and one bearded husband, all while continuously talking about herself in third person.